Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 123, 24 May 1922 — Page 8

SUNDAY GIVES HIS THEORY REGARDING , SIN AGAINST THE HOLY GHOST: WARNS

AGAINST CONSTANT REJECTION OF GOD

The Text ."Wherefore I say unto you, all manner -of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men, but the blasphemy "against the Holy Ghost it snail not be forgiven unto men, whether in this .world, nor .In the world to come. Matthew 12th chapter, ' 31st verse. So that sweeps the sand from beneath the feet of any man -who says that there is f utnre probation for the sinner. There is no hope for the man who dies without Jesus Christ , The Pharisees charged Jesus with being in league with the devil. They said to him, "Why, you have a devil." They grew bolder in their denunciation and; said to him, "You are a devil, you do what you do through Beelzebub, the prince of devils." Jesus said, "A ; house divided against itself cannot stand. If I am a devil, will you explain to me how it is I am working against the. devil and everything I ay and everything I do hurts the devil and his business? If I was he mouthpiece of the devil I wouldn't be on, the other side, and I'd be working for the devil." They couldn't kanswer his argument but it made jthem so mad they spat in His face and finally they nailed Him on the cross. I know there are various opinions held by men and women as to what they imagine constitutes the unpar donable sin, for which God says He bath never forgiveness, neither in this world or the world to come. Some people think xtcould;have been committed only by thos e who- saw Jesus in the flesh. Then. I am not in danger and neither are you. Others think it is committed by those who saw Jesus perform his miracles. You didn't see Jesus on earth when He performed miracles. There are other people who imagine they have committed the unpardonable sin and they spend j their time In fear and dread. Many Belong To This Class. I believe there are thousands who will come under the head of my text tonight They are never gloomy or cast down or depressed. Their consciences are at ease, nothing seems ever to disturb them; life seems to be one grand, sweet song, a. neverending dream. If you will please lay aside any pre-conceived idea or opinion which you may have "or still possess as to what you may imagine or think constitutes the unpardonable sin (but you will have to have an open mind and an open heart) and if time will permit and my strength will allow and your , patience endure, I will try to ask and, answer these questions: What is It? - . 1 Who can commit It?. ' " v, 'How may I know If I have com; mitted it? ... " Why will God not forgive it He says He never will, neither In this world or the world to come. . It isn't swearing. If swearing were the unpardonable sin. there are lota of people in heaven that would have to leave and go to hell. It isn't swearIt isn't drunkenness, Some of tne brightest lights that have ever blazed for Jesus Christ and have lighted up the dark spots of this sin-soaked world have been men that have been pulled from sin and drunkenness. Hundreds of them would have to go to hell, and there are multitudes of redeemed drunkards on the way to heaven who would have to turn and go on the way to perdition. ,It isn't adultry. "Neither do I condemn vou. go and sin no. more." It isn't theft He said. "This day has salvation come to this house." "It Isn't murder." Paul stood there and he was accessory after the fact of stoning Christians to death. He went to Damascus witn autnomy to imprison and murder those who believed that Jesus was the Christ, the Son of God. . Constant Rejection v - Of Christ , To my mind it is plain and simple nothing but the constant and sontinnal and final rejection of Jesus Christ as your personal savior. You say, "No." ' " I do not pretend to he able to say whfn 'the time , takes , place in the life of any man or .woman when you can hear the last call, but the man J or the woman who refuses as God's spirit pleads with you, may forever; seal your doom and you must have eyes in the back of your head if you can't see that God's spirit is moving upon this city as perhaps never before. , But you hear -the call and go about your business, go about the duties of your home and society. Ycu are too absorbed in your own affairs. You have no special form of sill; no one , single act; . but an7 sin may harde n your, heart and fix your character; to the extent that you will refuse to give that upand by constantly refusing, your heart grows hard. Here' you are, living in sin. God's spirit calls to you to be a Christian. You say "no" and you keep on indulging In that sin until the time will come when God says: "If you think more of that sin than you do of salvation, then you can take that sin and go. It Is no one act, but the constant repititlon. of the same thing, refusing to be a Christian, until your heart becomes hard and your heart becomes hard and your will is set and you grieve the spirit of God and He will bear with you no more and He will let you alone; So, therefore, to .say ."no" to God in this solemn hour, of life may mean your eternal destiny. No one glaring act, but the reputition . of the same thing. i r '. Out in' a big western icity where I preached one time lived a man who came from w country town, and brought with mm to the city his di ploma as a lawyer. He was a man of great Intellect and he had a logi cal and argumentative mind that mads men admire him. But he left God out of his life's plan. He was twice elected mayor of that city and for eight years he represented that crpat commercial-; and : industrial cen ter in the lower house at Washington1, in the house of-jrepreentauves. . Foresaw HI. Election. ' -'' "'-" His name wa3 as commonly spoken

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famous men. He was candidate for governor of his state, and men said. "Why, hewil be elected.' It's a lead pipe cinch. He will be elected." All the brewery and all the liquor interests of the state backed him and when the campaign was at its height he went to a minister, a mend of mine, and thl3 minister told this story at this man's funeral: The lawyer said to him, "I feel strongly impelled to accept Jesus Christ as my saviour, and publicly confess and join the church, for Christ is knocking at my heart" My friend Bald to him, "Let Him in. He stands with open arms. His head is bent with a patience which never falters and listening for the faintest cry that will come from your lips. Let Him in." He said, "I'd like to, but I can't right now. You know people would say It was for political effect and to get the church vote, and if I did that there are certain Influences that are now back of me that I would lose and would turn against me. But," he said, "as soon as I am elected governor, before the Inauguration I am coming down to your church, publicly confess Jesus Christ and Join the church." He was not elected and his defeat broke his heart. His health failed. He went to Chicago to consult a famouB specialist who said: "There is no hope for you. You have an incurable ailment. Go home and Bet your house in order and get ready. You will not live one year." Calls for His Partner. He went back, set his house in order and went out to Pasadena, Calif., hoping the mild climate of that western paradise would be conducive to health. As he lay there, getting weaker, he wired back to this city of which he'd been mayor, and where he'd represented the people in congress, for his law partner, another famous man of that state, to come and pray with him, and this man jumped on the Santa Fe Limited; he went to Pasadena, and when he stood by the badside of. his partner he said to him: "I am dying, I've sent for you to come and pray with me." He said, "I can't pray. I never prayed in my life." He said, "I will go out and round up all the preachers in Pasadena, and the priests, and I will bring them In here to pray with you and for you, but I can't pray at all." He said, "Why don't you pray for yourself?" The great man replied, "I can't pray. All my life I turned away from God. I argued that Jesus was a myth, that heaven was a dream, hell was a fable and that the Bible was a clever sort of an Arabian Night's Tale of oriental logic and lore. "Young men patterned after me and they turned from God because I turned from God. They heard me, as mayor; they heard me, as a congressman; they heard me, as a lawye rsneer at God. They said, 'He doesn't need God; I don't need God.' Nowlod has "turned away and I can And he didn't pray. He lived a Christless life, he died a Christless death. They sent him back to his home. He sleeps jn a Christless grave in that cemetery, my friends. Oh, when he would have inherited the blessing he was rejected and he found no place for repentance. f Escapes - Certain Death. Over in Scotland men make a living by gathering the eggs of birds laid upon ledges of rocks away below the top of the ground. They will lower themselves and swing in upon the ledge of rock and gather the birds or the fledglings as the case might be Some years ago a man was doing that when the rope under his arms became untied and swung many feet be yond his reach. The projecting rock held the rope beyond his reach. All afternoon, all night, he was on the ledge and was giving himself up to the fate of starvation and death from thirst which he felt inevitably, awaited him, when a breeze came in from the ocean and caused the rope to start aerating. As the wind increased it velocity it increased the vibration of the Tope so that it swung very near the ledge on which he wa3 standing. He said, "If I stay here I will die; if I leap and miss that rope I will die. That is my only chance," and with a prayer, when the wind was at its height, he rushed out and leaned over the chasm and seized the rope and made his way hand over hand to the top. When he climbed out on the sur face his hair was as white as the driven snow. There is but one cord that swings through this world tonight, and that is the Holy Ghost, and with every pul sation of your heart it grows less. It did swing close to you at one time, but you said. No. ' You are like my friend who died in the west without Jesus Christ and without hope. By the known laws of your mind your conversation must be effected through the Influence ofthe truth on your mind. It is a known law of the mind that truth resisted loses its power over the mind that resists it, and that each resistance weakens the truth, strengthens you against the truth, and each resistance makes it that much harder for you to yield and do the right. No matter what Jesus said or did, they said He was a liar and a fraud and they refused to believe Him. He stood one day at the grave of Lazarus who had been dead four days. He cried, "Lazarus, come forth!" He that was dead awakened into life. Jesus said, "Isn't that enough to convince you I am the Son of God?" One day He was going into the city of Nain. They were bearing a young man ont to the cemetery- Jesus came alongthe road and, stopping, He took the corpse by the hand and, bending over the dead body, He said, "Young man, I sayunto you arisey Jesus turned to the crowd and said, "It that enough to convince you I am the Son of God?" They said, "Away with him." No matter wnat He said, they would not believe Him. Out in a town in Indiana, I think It was Kokomo, there was a woman named Mrs. Robinson who worked more especially in those days in a Methodist church holding a meeting. There was a young lady very prominent in society whom they tried to get to give her heart" to Christ, but she wouldn't do it. The last night of the meeting came. When Mrs. Robinson

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got through preaching she personally invited her to come. The young lady shook her head. Three times she went down and urged this girl. Writes Something In Book. When she returned to the platform she saw her turn to her companion, ! borrow his lead pencil and "take out a hymn book and write something in the book. Then she folded her arms and looked carelessly around the room. The meeting closed. -' Seven months afterwards Mrs. Robinson went back to that same town. She was met at the train by a woman who said, "Do you remember Miss B? She's dying. Maybe you can help her." She hurried to the home and rapped on the door and asked to see her. When she was ushured into the room the girl took one look at her and 6aid, "You are too late." She eald, "If you will go to the church and find the hymn book you will find the reason, for It's written in there." My friend hurried to the church and, in company with some friends, searched and found the hymn book. There, written on the fly-leaf 6he found these words: "I will run th risk; I will take my chances." The spirit of God never called her again. He left her. That was the last chance she ever had. God say, "My spirit shall not always strive with man." - That does not mean that God'3 spirit will be withdrawn from the world in general. When that occurs, men uoa win wind up things In this old world. Who can commit this sin? I used to think only a prostitute, a vile and Immoral person, , a degenerate. Who did Jesus warn? The Pharisees. And who were they. The best men morally In Jerusalem, and there Is not a man in this city that can measure up to the high standards of morality and truth of the Pharisees in the days of Jesus. They were zealous to stone the offenders against the moral law, yet that was the crowd of which Jesus said, "You are In danger of hellfire and damnation." The best man who can commit It, the best man or woman morally in this audience that says "no" to Jesus Christ your name may be synony mous will virtue, honor, integrity and philanthropy; your name may be as good as a government bond for any reasonable amount at any bank, you may be true to your wife; you would die before you'd sidestep your marriage vows and break the pledge you took amidst the perfume of the orange blossoms. I honor you for it. No Argument Will Avail. You may even defend me against that gang that hasn t any use for me. My friend Goodell said: "The best loved and worst hated man in America." I couldn't be decent and have the friendship of that dirty, stinking, God-forsaken, black-hearted gang. I don't want it! I don't want it! They can go to hell! - You may even defend the meeting of the Bible, but you let Jesus Christ try and get into your heart and try to get you on your feet to walk-down these aisles, and your hearts are seal ed like a bank vault and God can make no impression on you In this world. What is the work of the Holy Spirit? It hasn't a drop of blood, but here! You listen to a man preach or sing and pray and something says, "I ought to be a Christian." That's the Holy Spirit convicting you that you need the salvation that Jesus has provided. The Holy Ghost can't save you, but the office work of the Holy Ghost is to make you feel your need of the salvation that Jesus Christ provided for you when he died on the cross, and the Holy Spirit is the only representative of the Trinity in the world today. God spoke to the world through the old Mosaic ceremonial law and then Jesus was born born of a woman and conceived of the , Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, born in the manger. Jesus came into the world. He spake to the people through word and deed, fulfilled the law. Jews and Gentiles conspired; they killed Jesus Christ and when He arose from the dead, the Holy Spirit came down and He's been in the world as the only regenerating force since the day of Pentecost Holy Ghost Convinces Us. We are living in the dispensation, of the Holy Ghost Therefore, it takes the Holy Spirit to convict you tnat you are a sinner; it took the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ to the pardon of God for you to be savopen up the plan of salvation. It takes the Trinity to keep a soul out of hell. Sin is no trifle, but it takes the Holy Spirit to convict you that you are a sinner; it takes your faith In the shed blood of Jesus Christ to forgive your sins; it takes the pardon through your faith in Christ, con-! vinced by the Holy Ghost that youi need. ! Oh, God! Sin is no trifle, God says sin is no trifle when it takes the Trinity to keep you out of hell. "Hath never forgiveness neither in this world neither in the world to come." . "How does it show itself?" asks a man or woman. Oh, I don't know. There are dozens of ways, but they are all subdivisions of two principles. First, by its maliginity. Take a man or woman that has sinned away their day of grace. Nothing stirs that old reprobate like seeing the great throngs of people back in this building going through all the inconveniences, my friends, that you have to, walking as thousands of you do, coming long distances to the tabernacle. Nothing stirs him so with hatred as to see the people come and want to be decent That gang can't bear to be decent themselves and they don't want anybody else to be decent, and so the dirty bunch wants to make you believe it's the way I preach instead of the way the dirty reprobates live, and they are trying to divert the at tention from their own contemptible living. After you fight that dirty bunch wants to make you believe you wil learn some things that I have learned. If that dirty bunch said anything good about me then I'd know I was wrong sure. Malignity Shows Itself. So therefore, by its malignity it stirs them. Years ago a revival was being held In New York and on the last night a young fellow was so convicted that he went forward and took the preacher by the hand, but he wouldn't accept Jesus Christ Eleven years later that same preacher was in Philadelphia and he went to a hotel to see a man. He had sent his card up to the room and was waiting for the answer when he

TABERNACLE STATISTICS Tuesday Afternoon Attendance 1,300 Trail hitters 5 Tuesday Evening Attendance 5,500 Trail hitters 168

casually strolled over to the door which led from the corridor of the office out into the bar room, and, iooiung mrougn, ne saw ine image or tne renow sianaing in iront or tne bar reflected In the mirror behind the bar. The man looked up and recognized the minister. He turned and walked to the door,, with extended hand, and eald, "Your name is Dr. So-and-So, isn't it? You held a meeting in New York 11 years ago? Do you remem ber me? I came up and took your hand one night and asked you to pray for me." The preacher said. "I should judge that you haven't settled the question GAL FOUR Tuesday nite . . . . of your soul from your present environment." He said, "I haven't, never expect to. I believe there is an eternal hell and am on my way to hell, and If there is a hell I'll be there."- And he said, "Furthermore, if yougave me a copy of the Bible and I abso lutely knew it was. I'd throw It in your face if Jesus Christ stood there and spoke to me and I positively knew it was He and well as I know you are So-and-So, I'd Bpit in His face." Continues His Rejection. The preacher said. "Hold on! Don't you talk like that about Jesus Christ If you'd talk that way about my wife I'd knock you down, and I won't allow any man to talk like that about Jesus Christ in my presence." He said, "Now promise me you will turn from your sins." The young fellow said, "I will do nothing of the kind. I believe there is a hell and I am on my way to hell," and with a string of oaths and blasphemy he turned back and walked to the bar. He emptied his glass and went out into the dark. By its malignity fc I'll venture there are men and women here tonight that have had a conviction or sin, felt they needed Jesus Christ, steeled their hearts and plunged into their sin until the Bpirit of God left them and now they have turned to the other extremity. Years ago I went to the town of Garner, Hancock county, Iowa. I preached one night and saw a man coming down the aisle en the run. The usher said, "Do you know that man?" "No; never Baw him before." He's the richest man in the country, owns 1,500 acres of land." I said to this man, "What was it in my sermon that moved you bo?" He said, "Nothing." "But I must have Bald something." "No." he said. "I. will tell you. I went to Chicago 20 years ago to sell cattle and hogs. After I'd sold them and got my money, we had our supper and were strolling around. Moody was preaching in Chicago. We had heard a good deal about Moody, and I said, "Let's go hear this man Moody." "We went around and the bulldfing was filled, but we stood in the doorway listening. When he got through, Moody said, 'Any man or woman that will give their heart to J Jesus Christ walk down and take my nana ! i lurnea to my inena ana saia, "I'm going up and take Moody by the hand." He said, "Don't give up to this excitement.' I said, 'I never was cooler in my life.' He said, 'Well, you can wait until you get home and do it." Seeking For Evidence. I said, "I'm 38 years old and I haven't done it yet: what evidence have I that I will do it when I got home? He said: 'Look here! We have 48 minutes before our train leaves and you will get down there and get tangled up in the crowd and our passes are no good after tonight." "I said, 'I'm able to pay my way home. I can afford to pay my car fare home.' "We stood there and debated the question and bye and bye when I looked at my watch we just had time and I turned my back on Moody and from that day until this, when I walked in here tonight, I never had a desire to be a Christian." Why? The spirit of God called him that night and he stood there looking at Moody. He turned and went back home and became rich and the Spirit of God called him that night and he yielded, and so, by letting Christ conquer, he yielded to the Lord. I have never said here, or anywhere, that all unbelievers are in agony. Ordinarily a man dies as he has lived. I don't go 'very much on Bo-called deathbed repentence. I think it's a mean, dirty, stinking, low-down, contemptible, unmanly, un womanly thing to keep the control of your life in your own hands, indulging in your pleasures and your desires whenever indulgences diametrically oppose your conscience and the Word of God, when God's spirit begs and pleads with you to forsake your sin, then when you are lying on your deathbed whine like a sick cat and whine for the preacher to save your carcass. After you've drained the cup of life then you throw the dregs into the face of God; after you've burned the candle of life in the service of the devil have the audacity to blow the smoke in God's face. Men Do Not Consider. I presume there are men and women who have never stopped to consider their souls eternal destiny and who may take time to consider and yield on their deathbed. If you never had a chance before, and never have another, you'd go out and squeeze this old world like you would squeeze a lemon. But by the eternal God, men and women, while I am in possession of the very apex of my physical and intellectual development and power. I want to give that to God and to Jesus Christ and humanity so when I drift out with the tide I won't have to spend my time wbinning and snuffing to God and confessing my sins, when I ought to have done it and been getting ready years ago. In' a western state lived a boy. His mother taught him the prayer that millions have lisped at their mother's knew "Now I lay me down to sleep." When he left home to win fame and fortune she begged him to take God with him, but he wouldn't. He mocked at men's faith as being child Ish and unworthy of men . and he

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went through college and there young men begged him to accept Jesus Christ and he refused. He was a man of wonderful intellect and he decided to go through ? ! tVt X andBtne7 had ST'the ! ?! Jltn'"e" . , , " " " 7' asking them to stoop, and kiss the Bible.

There it lay on the judges desk to dea and h, n BCnool work will with its leaves frayed where thou- be eshown to rooms. Comsands of lips had reverently kissed, mencement exercises will be held on

me sacrea vvora or uoa oeiore "ey day he took the oath of office ho picked up the Bible and threw it across the room and said to the col;ored porter: Rejects The Book "Take that damned book out of here." He said, "Don't you leave it here a minute. There will never be another witness sworn by kissing that book while I'm here. You might as well use a dime novel for the pro-j, cess.' He rose In the world, invested In real estate, became rvch. He was elected Judge out there of a high court.. Cancer seized him, gnawed at his v'tals; death with its fleshiest face came and grinned at him ever his couch; his soul quaked with fear. He sent for a friend of mine, a Chris tian man and a very prominent Insur. ance man In that section of the couniry, one xnai every in.umnce mn in the United States knows. He said to him, "I've lived a Godless life, but I can't die a Godless death. I'm taking that leap into the dark and I'm afraid. I could live without Christ, but Oh, I can't die without Christ pray for me." I've sent for you to I He said. "My prayers won't save you. Pray for yourself." He said, "I can't I'm lost! Lost: Lost!" And ' with those words ringing through the ears of hi3 friends he drifted with the tide. He 8aid, "No." No one glaring act, but constant repition of the same thing, until the spirit of God leaves you! A friend of mine was called upon one time to read the burial service of the church over the remane of one of the godliest women he'd ever known. There were three children in the family, two boys and a girl. The mother was taken ill and she constantly called the name of one boy who had gone away from home and was a prodigal. They handed him a telegram In a gambling hall and it said, "Hurry home. Mother is very sick," but h reached home a day too late. His mother was dead, and the day of the funeral, when my friend read the burial service, the Immediate -Members of the family were present and a few friends. The undertaker said, "All that desire to look, come this way." The friends went by and then the husband came. Looking in be said, "Well, goodbye mother. You made life happy. We will miss you." Then the sister came and said, "Farewell, . mother." She turned away and then went back, not satisfied with the look, but she kissed her cheeks again and again. - She said. "Goodbye, mamma, but we will all meet in the resurrection." And then the boy that remained at home came. He said, "Farewell, mamma. We will all meet in the morning." Then this young fellow stood lean ing against the wall. His eyes were as dry as the desert of Sahara. His sister put her arms about him and led him to the coffin and she said, "Edward, don't you want to look at mother?" He looked at her a moment and sobbed as though his heart would break. She said to him, "Edward, don t you feel so bad. You know we will all see mother again." My friend said he raised one of the saddest faces he'd ever seen ana said, "Well, perhaps you will, but I never expect to. I'm not going that way. I don't believe that way." Dies Without Hope. ' Three days later they found his Doay in the gutter back of a 6tale beer Joint and he died, my friends, as he had lived, without hope In Jesus ennst." "All manner of sin," God says, "He will forgive." In his days of ribaldry and Jest, Bob Ingersoll said, "If God can't forgive sin, He's not divine." God has a right t6 state the terms upon which . you can have salvation and if you can have salvation and you are not willing to comply with God'5s terms, then go to hell, but don't try to throw it into the teeth of oGd and say He is not loving. God states the terms upon which you can keep out of hell, and if you are not willing to comply with it, shut your mouth and go on. Let God alone. God can't stop you, but He's doing all that He can in this old world to do It "All manner of sin," God says, He will forgive, but it Is conditioned upon you doing something to have His forgiveness. Supposing you are a thief. Will God forgive a man for theft? Didn't He say to Zacchaeus, "This day hath salvation come to this house?" Receives Letter. When my friend, Mr. Wanamaker. was postmaster-general of the United States, John said he received a letter that read like this: "My dear Sir: " am sending "you today by the Adams Express half bills to the amount of fifteen hundred dollars to match the same in series and number sent to the treasurer of the United States by the same method of conveyance, the - Adams Express, which amount ((fifteen hundred dollars) represents The interest and principal of which I defrauded the government when I was in its employ 15 years ago. "I have found peace and pardon with God through faith in Jesus Christ and I want to make the wrong right Put it with the conscience fund. All manner of sin God says He will forgive." They tell me that when visitors go to Paris that there are two places they always go to one is the Louvre and the other is the tomb of Napoleon. A friend of mine' some years ago was walking through the Louvre. He gazed upon a painting of Dore which represented Mary Magdalene kneeling at the foot of Jesus who haft cast the devil out of b,er." He stood gazing at the face of the Saviour ana was transfixed .by the beauty And

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CAMPBELLSTOWN. Ohio., May 24. School will close on Wednesday. Billy Sunday will give a talk at 10 o'clock. eseTalid musTcal program wTl begin J "J? Boon games and drills by the grades and a ball game between Jackson mgn hool andVest Alexandria high have Kaam exA nl aA QnaMal ' ATflihUt nf Frlday evening, May 26 CHRIST'S CAREER (Continued from preceding page) And the manner of His resurrection was wonderful. No human mind ever Imagined that scene. If some man had attempted to deiiCribe how he thought it occurred, have bad thundermg and ligM. ning. An angel came down and rolled away the stone as quietly as the opening of a spring flower, and when the women came to the sepulchre they found no disorder. They found the linen clothes folded neatly. His appearance was so different from what man would have had them. He appeared to every one of His best friATldi nftpr Wia MBiirrnrtion : not one of Hig enemies ever got their! eye3 OQ Hlm and tney never have, and they, never, never will no, sir, not one of them ever did! I know the story is true; nobody but God could have had it happen in the order and in the way that He did it. If the story had been false, we'd have bad Jesus chasing around and hunting for Old Pilate and tne high priests and the Pharisees, trying to convince them He was the Son of God. Now is Chance to be Saved - He said, "No, sir, if you don't believe on me now, you will never have another chance afterwards." So, if Jesus had been chasing around hunting Pilate after His resurrection if you don't believe in Jesus Christ right now, you will never have another .chance .They, wouldn't believe on Him while He was in the flesh and they never got a chance afterwards. And the effect of His teaching on the world is wonderful. Jesus left no college to propagate His views. He committed His views to a few humble fishermen, and their names are the most famous in all the world today. Jesus never wrote a sermon. He nev er published a book, and nothing that He ever said or did has been carved in marble or cast in bronze or scrolled on brass, yet His doctrines have endured for two thousand years and they have gone to the end of the earth and wherever they have been preached and accepted and lived they have lifted nations and individuals out of degradation and drunkenness. They have made this old world blossom like a rose. When Jesus began His ministry Rome ruled the world. The invisible legions of Rome, her eagles, were everywhere. Rome's power is gone today, her armies and her religion are gone today. The temple of Diana of the Ephesus Is in ruins. Not one worshipper of old Diana could be found on the face of this earth today. Miracles Are Wonderful When Jesus fed the five thousand with the-loaves and the fishes, when He helped the woman who touched the hem of His garment, there was not a church nor a Y. M. C. A. nor a Y. W. C. A. There wasn't a hos pital. There wasn't a home for the aged or the infirm. There wasn't a mission. There wasn't a place for the outcast. There wasn't an institution for any of the afflicted humanity. There wasn't a charitable institution of any kind on the face of the earth. Today they are as thick as the sands on the sea shore, and the teachings of Jesus Christ have built every hospital, every mission. It is the teachings of Jesus Christ on the hearts of humanity that has caused us to build these to take care of the unfortunate and those that are down in sin. That is what built this tabernacle, faith, in Jesus Christ And when the cloud received Him out of sight, the only recorded words were written upon the hearts of His followers. Today the libraries groan and the shelves dip with the weight, of books that tell about Him. Oh, the scholarship of the world sits at His feet And the master paintings that men pay such fabulous prices for, depict! no and reproducing in pigments and colors something that Jesus did or said they are the masterpieces -of the world today! You owe all that to religion and to. Jesus Christ and His truth. So, never a man spake as this man, and His utterances have been translated into five hundred different languages and dialects. His thoughts run through all literature. His followers are the most famous of all the men and all the women of all the nations of all the earth. "His name shall be called Wonderful." Oh, there may be another Homer, or another Virgil, or another Dante, or Milton, Shakespeare, or Caesar, or Carlemagne, or Alexander, or Raph ael, or Angelo, but there never will be another. Jesus Christ! And if I didn't know anything about this Savior from personal ex penence, i wouian t talk to you about it; but I know. There is noth ing so convincing, my friends, to men as your own experience. I don't know that I am the Son of my mother any more truly than I know I am the Son of God. . I know I am the son of mv mother, or I wouldn't be standing here, if I wasn t I don t need to stand and argue with you to prove it, look at me. And Jesus didn't argue with people to prove he was the Son of God. He said, "Look at the works." And I know just as truly I am a child of God by my faith. in Jesus Christs I am a child of my mother. I know I was born physically, and I know you were, you can know that you are born spiritually just the same. This wonderful Savior has saved me. ' Let me ask you a question and then I am through. Has this wonderful Savior saved you? When the proof is so overwhelming that He can save you, when He has been saving people for nearly power depleted there. The guide tapped him on the shoulder and said. "Look at the" kneeling woman In the shadow." Dropping his 'eyes, he said the contrast both on the look of her face and the face of the Saviour startled him. He had forgiven her much; she asked Him much.

GAINS FIVE CONVERTS IN POWERFUL PLEA TUESDAY AFTERNOON

Surprising his audience hy giving an afternoon invitation to give their hearts to Christ, Billy Sunday, Tues-

uay aiiemoon, snooK nanas or live "trail hitters" wlio came foreward. Preaching on th'e power of tears in the gospel, Sunday told the story of the deacon who had tried all of his verbal arguments on an infidel blacksmith without result, but finally won him to Christ by tears and prayers. "I could not answer his tears," Sunday had the blacksmith say. "If there is enough to that belief to make a man cry and pray for another's salvation, there must be Bomething in it for me. Guests of Hell. Hell was not made for man, Sunday declared, but for the devils that were thrown out of Heaven, and man goes there only when he follows the devil. -Rev. H. S. James gave the opening prayer, while Miss Ruth James sang a solo, at the request of Mr. Rodeheaver. Rev. R. W. Leazer, pastor of the Firer Baptist church, made an announcement concerning donations for the final thank offering to Mr. Sunday. About 1,300 persons attended the

services. two thousand years, when nobody ever has been, or ever will be saved if He doesn't save them, when you are not saved and when the proof is so overwhelming, isn't it wonderful that you are indifferent? So, it is as wonderful to me that you are indifferent to Jesus Christ as it is wonderful to me that Jesus was the Son of God. There are two amazing things to me, that you would reject it, that He is the Son of God. "His namet I shall be called Wonderful." Never mind how deep your iniquity, how many blunders and mistakes you have made, that never enters into consideration with God. Nevciyet abyss was found deeper than the cross could sound, and there has never been found a sinner that God couldn't go down and pull him out. Grace will go just as deep as sin can push a man. It will find him soiled. I can imagine that when God was about to create man,' he called to Him his ministering ones who wait constantly before the throne and said,

"Justice, shall we make man?" "No," said Justice. "Lord God don't you ever make man. He will trample your laws beneath his feet. He will profane your name and ho will pollute your sanctity. No, Lord, don't you make man." Then turning to Truth God said, "Truth, shall we make man?" God Turns To Mercy. Truth said, "Make him not! He will controvert Thy word, he will insult yov.r gracious spirit and he will turn away from the Creator with heartless indifference, and deny that you ever created or existed." Then God turned to Mercy and said, "Mercy, what do you say, shall we create man?" . ,. , . . Mercy dropped on her knees and looking up through her tears said, "Yes, Lord, I know that all that Justice and all that Truth have said is true, but if you will create man, I will watch over him. When he forgets, I will whisper to him of your love, 'and in all the sins of his life. I will tell him that you have not forgotten him. And though he becomes vile and utterly undone, and crouched perhaps, with bleared and blood-shot eyes beneath the hangman's rope, I will follow him through all his devious and winding paths across the land; through the haunts of sin, and vice, and drunkenness, and I will whisper to him of your love." Yes, Justice and Truth were right. God hath put man in this beautiful world, where every prospect pleases and only man is vile. We have, mv friends, gone to the farthest limits of our sin and down to the deepest depths of iniquity. Men and women have plunged. They have profaned God's laws and His Sabbath day. and His Sanctuary. They have lived in adultery, they have cursed and blas phemed, and they have trampled beneath them the tenderest messages of God, but God has never forgotten them. Love and Mercy have followed you every step of your life. And God has brought all' these influences to bear to get you to rush into the open arms of this wonderful Savior that the prophet wrote about 800 years before he was cradled in the manger: "His name shall be called Wonderful." GREAT ZEAL (Continued from Preceding Page) all right," he replied, "Because she Is already a member." Mrs. Elizabeth Mahew, who was a member of the old organization, the Crusaders, that, Rodeheaver said, existed before the days of Carrie Nation, was also introduced to the audience. The W. C. T. U. song, to the time of "Brighten the Corner Where You Are" was "Work For Enforcement Where You Are." Mr. Rodeheaver was just commencing to sing, "The Big Brewer's Horses Can't Run Over Me?" when the lights in the tabernacle went out. Matthews hesitated just a minute but swung into the melody in the dark, while Mr. Rodeheaver sang several verses of the song. The lights came on Just as he had finished, but a spot light from one single electric flash light played on him during the song. Girls Sing The high school girls, came In for their part with a song to the tune ot "The Old Grey Mare," which ran: "The M. H. S. is not what she used to be. Since Billy came to town." The same girls as they entered the tabernacle earlier in the evening sang "Key Girls will Shine Tonight." - Hagerstown, besides its banner, brought a banner to the tabernacle bearing the inscription, "Yes Billy, Hagerstown is here." In honor of the W. C. T. U. delegation a picture of Frances Willard was hung, flag draped, under the pulpit. Mrs. Elizabeth Stanley, offered the opening prayer, and Rev. E. Howard Jones the closing one, while the announcement relative to the collection

J for Mr. Sunday was made by Will I Romey.